The overstory / Richard Powers.
By: Powers, Richard [author.]
Publisher: London : William Heinemann, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 502 pages ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785151644 (paperback); 9781785151637 (hardback)Subject(s): Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction | Deforestation -- Fiction | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction | Forest conservation -- Fiction | Environmental protection -- Fiction | Human-plant relationships -- FictionGenre/Form: Ecofiction DDC classification: 813.6
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent?s few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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